ID: 700008647 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008647	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Adoration of the Magi (painting (visual work); Benvenuto di Giovanni (Sienese, 1436 - before 1517); ca. 1470/1475; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1937.1.10)

Titles:

Adoration of the Magi (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

altarpiece [300075940]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by function>, religious visual works)

Classifications:

not applicable (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1470/1475

Creator Display:

Benvenuto di Giovanni (Sienese, 1436 - before 1517) [preferred,VP,NGA-US]

painter Benvenuto, di Giovanni (Italian painter, 1436-ca.1518) [500031885]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1937.1.10

Credit Line: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Other: Creation: Siena [7011179] Siena province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: tempera on poplar panel

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	poplar (wood) [300012363]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	panel (wood by form) [300014657]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by form or function>)

Dimensions: overall: 182 x 137 cm (71 5/8 x 53 15/16 in.); framed: 207.7 x 150.5 x 11.4 cm (81 3/4 x 59 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Adoration of the Magi [901000083]
	.....((Legend of the Nativity of Christ, Life of Jesus Christ, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Giuseppe Toscanelli [1828-1891], Pontedera and Pisa;[1] (Toscanelli sale, Sambon, Florence, 23 April 1883, no. 137, as by Gentile da Fabriano); Sir William Neville Abdy, 2nd bt. [1844-1910], The Elms, Newdigate, Dorking; by inheritance to his daughter, Florence, Lady Abdy [d. 1922], Dorking and London; (her sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5 May 1911, no. 139, as by Gentile da Fabriano); (Wallis & Son, London).[2] (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris), by 1913;[3] sold August 1919 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[4] on approval to Carl W. Hamilton [1886-1967], New York, by 1920, and returned 1921;[5] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[6] gift 1937 to NGA. Exhibition History 1885 Exposition de tableaux, statues et objets d'art au profit de l'oeuvre des Orphelins d'Alsace-Lorraine, Salle des Etats du Louvre, Paris, 1885, no. 180, as by Gentile da Fabriano. 1932 Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 15. 1933 Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933, no. 59, as by Matteo di Giovanni, repro.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Adoration of the Magi	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]